[PDF] Pin Up Grrrls Feminism Sexuality And The Pin Up 1860 To The Present eBook

Author : Maria Elena Buszek
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822337461

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DIVA visual history about how feminist artists have appropriated and incorporated the signification of the pin-up genre within their own work./div

Author : Samantha Barbas
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0912777567

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In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out scandalous facts about the stars, including sexual affairs, drug use, and sexual orientation, publisher Robert Harrison destroyed celebrities' carefully constructed images and built a media empire. Confidential became the bestselling magazine on American newsstands in the 1950s, surpassing Time, Life, and the Saturday Evening Post. Eventually the stars fought back, filing multimillion-dollar libel suits against the magazine. The state of California, prodded by the film studios, prosecuted Harrison for obscenity and criminal libel, culminating in a famous, star-studded Los Angeles trial. This is Confidential's story, detailing how the magazine revolutionized celebrity culture and American society in the 1950s and beyond. With its bold red-yellow-and-blue covers, screaming headlines, and tawdry stories, Confidential exploded the candy-coated image of movie stars that Hollywood and the press had sold to the public. It transformed Americas from innocents to more sophisticated, worldly people, wise to the phony and constructed nature of celebrity. It shifted reporting on celebrities from an enterprise of concealment and make-believe to one that was more frank, bawdy, and true. Confidential's success marked the end of an era of hush-hush—of secrets, closets, and sexual taboos—and the beginning of our age of tell-all exposure.

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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :

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Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Author : Rachel Teukolsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192603566

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The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.

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Page : 656 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Canada
ISBN :

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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : Alissandra C. Burack
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Feminism and art
ISBN :

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Investigates the societal and cultural affect of the American pin-up girl within American society, evaluating the pin-up's role in redefining and restructuring the theoretical ideologies of patriarchy, gender, and sexuality.

Author : Margaret Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0748401008

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Why and when did sexuality become an important political issue for Victorian feminists? Why were Edwardian feminists so divided in their views about sexual freedom and its relationship to women's emancipation? The Real Facts of Life tackles these important questions, providing an analysis of the struggle for female sexual autonomy which posed a significant threat to the structure of male power during this period. It shows how feminists confronted the institution of heterosexuality by waging campaigns to expose what they called 'The Real Facts of Life': the sexual exploitation of women in marriage and prostitution, and the double standard of sexual morality which legitimated this as 'natural'.

Author : Larissa Haggrén
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789526079998

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First FAQ is the first volume of a collection of critical, contemporary feminist and queer scholarship emerging from the Department of Art at Aalto University, with contributions from Finnish and international students, among others. The book advocates for non-normative educational, artistic, and cultural approaches that explore largely silenced issues. The texts emerge from personal experiences, but address systemic discrimination embedded within broad institutional and political structures.